This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Man’s disease is loneliness; God’s is progress.
Disease | God | Loneliness | Man | Progress |
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
Resentment is the refusal, out of fear, to cross the bridge of sadness and let ourselves back into the impermanent world of relationship.
Fear | Relationship | Resentment | Sadness | World |
The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
Existence | Imagination | Truth |
Crystals are like concentrated knowledge pressed into crystalline form. They are the culmination of life force coming together in time and space. The crystal shows nature’s urge for symmetry and perfection. Our life purpose is like that – purposeful curiosity and imagination yearning for balance and beauty.
Balance | Beauty | Curiosity | Force | Imagination | Knowledge | Life | Life | Nature | Perfection | Purpose | Purpose | Space | Time |
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
Existence | Imagination | Nature | Power |
A prison is never narrow when the imagination can range in it as it will.
Imagination | Prison | Will |
The animosity which Nations reciprocally entertain is nothing more than what the policy of their Governments excites to keep up the spirit of the system. Each Government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue, and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective Nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of Man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.
Ambition | Enemy | Government | Imagination | Intrigue | Man | Means | Nations | Nothing | Perfidy | Policy | Spirit | System | Government |
William P. Montague, fully William Pepperell Montague
Atheism leads not to badness but only to an incurable sadness and loneliness.
Atheism | Loneliness | Sadness |
William Osler, fully Sir William Osler
It is more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what kind of disease the patient has.
The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push that one or the other takes the lead.
The world of reality has its bounds. The world of imagination is boundless.
Imagination | Reality | World |
The visions of the mystics are determined in content by their belief, and are due to the dream imagination working upon the mass of theological material which fills the mind.
Belief | Imagination | Mind |